Yahoo! continues its quest to bring Social Software to the masses

Posted Feb 10th 2006 5:52PM by Chris Price

At Demo '06 this week, a number of companies presented their Web 2.0 \ Social Networking applications.

Yahoo! was there to show off their new Yahoo! Photos application that applies several technologies and features from the Flickr acquisition.

Techcrunch has a good article regarding the upcoming changes, along with some screenshots:

Ajax interface for Drag and Drop
Tagging
Smart albums (based on date or ratings)
Friends \ Community (presumably using the Yahoo! 360 \ My Web 2.0 features)
RSS feeds (coming soon according to the developers)

What's really interesting is the scale of the audience, Yahoo! states that 30 million unique users access the current service - that's an awful lot of exposure for these technologies and may provide the catalyst for widespread adoption outside of the typical IT users.

Reader Comments

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1. I wonder what all this buzz about social software is about. I would say, the Web becomes a social place,if you can meet people there, much less, if you share bookmarks or images. Nothing against bookmark sharing and flickr, but Web Mobs (http://www.webmobs.de) is really social. With real people on all pages.

Posted at 7:23AM on Feb 13th 2006 by Heiner Wolf

2. I'm just wondering how people eat this new hype. It seems that people learnt nothing from bubble in the late 90th. Most of all these "web 2.0" companies dont have proper business model.

Posted at 6:12AM on Feb 15th 2006 by eq2 plat

3. I don't think the business model matters. If the new capabilities/interfaces/mental maps catch on (as I think they have), social software will survive because i's a process, not a product. The web didn't go away when the dot-commies went bust.

Posted at 1:45AM on Feb 18th 2006 by Joe Clark

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